Camera Clamp

I moved my raspberry pi cat cam to get a better view of both cats feeding. When I used just a rubber band to attach it to a floor lamp it would twist out of vertical. I made this clamp to hold it straight.

See Camera Clamp 2 for revised version.

I designed a tray to hold the camera and clamp to the lamp post with everything held in place with a rubber band.

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The design coded nicely in OpenSCAD except for the final shaping which didn't render the difference of differences until triangulated.

w = 36; h = 77; t = 10; module base () { translate([0,0,0]) cube([w+6,h+6,t],true); } module slot (x,y) { d = 15; l = 1.2*t; translate([x*(w-d), y*(w-d), -l/2]) cylinder(h=l,r=4, $fn=30); } module slots () { slot(+1,+1); slot(+1,-1); slot(-1,+1); slot(-1,-1); } module recess () { translate([0,0,8]) cube ([w,h,10],true); } module shaft () { d = 12.5; l = 1.2*h; translate([0,l/2,2-d/2]) rotate([90,0,0]) cylinder(h=l,r=d/2,$fn=90); } module shape () { d = 1.39*w; l = 1.2*h; translate([0,l/2,.36*d]) rotate([90,0,0]) cylinder(h=l,r=d/2,$fn=90); } difference () { difference () { base(); slots(); recess(); shaft(); } difference () { base(); shape(); } }

Features like through holes create ambiguous surfaces when sized without overlap. I'm pleased with my new convention of scaling by 1.2 which is a number I will recognize in this role.

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